Consensus Comparison: X-Men: Apocalypse, Chevalier May 28, 2016

No Film of the Week. I’d like to use this space to write briefly about one thing that occurred to me about this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

Did Cannes really have their greatest Competition in recent memory? Most seem to say yes, but that would ignore the fact that the Competition kind of drove off a cliff starting with Day 8, or a little past the halfway point. The viciously-received films include It’s Only the End of the World, From the Land of the Moon, The Last Face and Ma’ Rosa (though that last one scored nicely on our site). The major disappointments include The Salesman, The Unknown Girl and Slack Bay. The reactions to The Neon Demon and The Handmaiden were mostly less than enthusiastic. That doesn’t leave a ton of worthwhile films to look forward to, at least compared to previous Cannes Competitions.

Garbage Time is an irregular section of this stats column that looks at movies that, for multiple reasons starting with the mostly negative reviews, were deemed unsuitable for the homepage but nevertheless might still be of some interest to cinephiles.